lissom
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When they got married, Giorgio presented them with all the forged money and papers needed for a trip to England and escorted them off to let Aquila meet the great Professor Lissom in person.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is as far from either model as it is from the double target roughly caricatured in the description of Professor Lissom.
From Time Magazine Archive
See our article, "Lissom Hands and Pretty Feet."
From The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 by Peters, Charles
I have heard a lady this night, Lissom and jimp and slim, Calling me—calling me over the heather, 'Neath the beech boughs dusk and dim.
From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by De la Mare, Walter
Lissom swayings make the willows One bright sheen, Which the breeze puffs out in billows Foamy green.
From Voices for the Speechless by Firth, Abraham
